“If a worker becomes more productive, they earn more as well as allowing the company to make profits.”

Do they? Not if the employer can keep that productive worker w/o paying him or her more. That’s just good business. They less the cost of production (including labor costs, the greater the profit.

It is true that “The more efficient worker should earn more and higher wages are a reward for greater efficiency.” But there’s no compelling reason for a business owner to grant such a reward, so long as the productive employee must (or will) remain working for the business.

In fact, an owner or manager who gave higher wages every time the business became more profitable due to increased productivity would be foolish. Why pay more (and thereby drive up your costs and reduce your profits) to people who have been working all along for whatever you’ve been paying them?

[I have to stop for now before I end up sounding like a communist]

Pay is not for turning up and randomly creating something that consumers may not want, it is for productivity. This means productive work. The more efficient worker should earn more and higher wages are a reward for greater efficiency.

“Since government schooling is free”. Not so. Taxes are taken to pay for ‘free education’. We all pay whether we use it or not and to whatever extent we use it.

It was a free market that provided the productivity gains that western society is built on. Tear down the foundation and let us see what results….

Anyone who relies upon the state and the police to protect them is living in a fools paradise. In fact, these organizations systematically plunder my wealth, endanger my life, and erode my liberty. I rely upon locks and more advanced forms of technology to secure my life and property. Note that these are purely defensive and attack no one. If these fail, insurance will restore the monetary loss. This is government – non-political commercial-market government, i.e. property protection products and services. Political government is a fraud, a failure, and an enslaver.

Your on the right track, keep asking questions and learn from your experiences. Too much of what we see and think is filtered by a media that has become politically biased. Take in the facts from both sides and make up your own mind. I know it is not easy with the wall of hype thrown up daily by news, and media outlets.

Unions, jobs, education, and government regulation are the critical issues that we must solve, I do not believe that anyone really has solved them yet. In America I believe we have reached a critical time, tipping point if you will, that drills right down to our own beliefs about who we are and what we stand for, and what kind of country we will be in the future.

These are scary, and confusing times, and people look for stability in those times. We are a liberal people founded on a government of liberal policies, those policies being, the absolute distrust of big government, the freedom of the individual in the pursuit of happiness, the rejection of elite ruling political classes, or tyrannical regimes that oppress it’s people in name of safety and security.

Keep your mind open, and follow those that are seeking truth, not those who claim to have found it, I don’t believe anyone has, or ever will.

A favorite bumper sticker of mine: There’s No Government Like … No government.

Every person has an opinion; not every person is willing to back his or her opinion with his or her life at stake. Listen carefully to those who would risk their life to back up their opinions. They have the most to lose and maybe the most to gain. They accept full responsibility. They are indeed rare people.

The world is filled with nanny-state loving collectivists. Evidence: the lengthy comment by Tshaka on 25 March 2009. As tragic as it is, the incontrovertible truth witnessed by the economic Aceldama that befalls the world today (2010), leans heavily against free markets, liberty, freedom, financial privacy, personal privacy and private property rights. It is sad to behold. Americans have frittered away some of the most valuable attributes that make life truly worth living. I mentioned them above. America is fast becoming THE place to be FROM. I am from that place.

Opinions from erudites, pundits and individuals like Tshaka, staked without a life … are floaters that need to be flushed! Please … someone pull the handle.

C’est la guerre,

Capt. A.
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“Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn’t deserve to be.” ~ L. Neil Smith